Savior of Her Heart. Red Planet Fated Mates, #4

She survived the crash. She has never forgiven herself. Alora wakes every night with the same nightmare: chaos, fear, and the terrible moment when someone needed her and she froze. The generation ship is wrecked on Tajss, the desert settlement is barely holding together, and everyone keeps finding reasons to live. Alora keeps waiting to deserve hers. When Captain Nyanna sends her across the desert on a simple scouting mission, Alora is paired with T'Kali, a huge, cheerful Zmaj warrior with soft yellow eyes, dangerous strength, and an unsettling habit of looking at her like she is beautiful.
He calls her treasure before she can understand what the word means. Alora does not need a protector. She definitely does not need a mate. But Tajss does not care what she thinks she needs. The mission turns dangerous fast. T'Kali tames vicious guster mounts, shields her from the desert, and makes Alora feel almost safe for the first time since the crash. Every awkward word, every careful touch, every impossible smile slips past the walls she built around her guilt.
Then the Order attacks. T'Kali saves her from the ambush, but the enemy warriors take him instead. Bound, beaten, and dragged into an underground outpost, he is still more worried about Alora than himself. He is her protector. Her shield. Her impossible, infuriating, beautiful warrior. And this time, Alora refuses to freeze. Alone in the desert with two dangerous guster and no one coming to save them, she follows the Order's trail into the dark.
If she fails, T'Kali dies. If she succeeds, she may finally prove that the crash did not turn her into a coward. He saved her from the desert. She is going to save him from the Order. Savior of Her Heart is a steamy alien dragon romance featuring a survivor-guilt heroine, a cheerful protective Zmaj warrior, fated mates, forced proximity, dangerous desert travel, hurt/comfort, an Order outpost rescue, language-barrier intimacy, trauma healing, and a guaranteed happily ever after.